Going into the final Diablo fight, I had 57k Damage and 39k Life and 800 Resists ... but only 565 LoH and 2.2 Life Steal. I thought I was pretty good as a WW, farming much of Act III. But after spending 90,000 gold on repairs, I thought I'd give up on the game. I watched every video; the more easy some people made it look, the worse I felt. Something always happened to me in Phase 2 ...
Then as I lay awake at 3AM, I even thought about using a shield ... that led me to think about just buying the cheapest gear I could that had ginormous LoH. I had a crappy 544 DPS dagger on AH with 600 LoH, I bought a shield with loads of vitality, and a magic ring and amulet. My LoH was at 2000, my life was at 50k, but my DPS was at 20K ... eek.
This time I got past Phase 2, but it took more than 1/2 an hour. I kept dying when Diablo was at about 20-25% health in Phase 3. I realized that the longer the fight took, the more chance I'd make a mistake ... and you guys know, Diablo is very unforgiving. That's when I betrayed my calling and went strictly melee ... I even [gulp] switched my skills. I used leap instead of sprint, rend instead of whirlwind. It took five attempts, but I finally got him!!! The last attempt, I thought I had failed ... I was pinned to the wall as he did his frontal lightning cast, and I kept slamming him ... you know how he doesn't die right away but sorta lingers for about 15 seconds before you get the achievement?
I guess I have to make some more attempts at him as a WW ... but not for while
I tried it, hated it, went back to S&B. Sure, those top WW'ers can fly through act III faster than I can, but I can still jump into a pack with 50+ mobs and stomp on all of them. Also... I feel like I'm playing a Barbarian. I can't stand the WW playstyle, at all, whatever the advantages may be.
What exactly were you having problems with? Rage generation? Keeping twisters up? Standing in fire?
I was much worse off gear wise than you were: 600 resists with impunity, less than 20k dps with battle cry, and only around 33k hp, though I did have about 1800 life on hit and 40% crit. I managed to kill him in a fairly short period of time...probably around 10 minutes? Phase 2 was the only iffy time for me, and it only took me 2 attempts total to kill him for my first time.
His hitbox is fairly large, so keeping him standing in 3 twisters isn't difficult at all. Once you have Wrath of the Berserker up, always make sure to leave at least 20 rage saved to keep up twisters, and spin to win baby. You're immune to bone prisons, might be able to tank the fire with high enough resist. You can't stand in the lightning cone, but you can easily dodge it with WotB speed and sprint.
If you need more life on hit, just stick with the high dps weapon you have, and then find a dagger with whatever-who-cares dps and +900 life on hit, and crit damage if you can manage it. Ideally you only need anywhere from 700 - 1500 life on hit to kill him.
I tried it, hated it, went back to S&B. Sure, those top WW'ers can fly through act III faster than I can, but I can still jump into a pack with 50+ mobs and stomp on all of them. Also... I feel like I'm playing a Barbarian. I can't stand the WW playstyle, not for, whatever the advantages may be.
I couldn't agree with you more ... I like the animation of WW, but I feel like a food processor with legs. I may start experimenting with a more traditional melee build ... now that I've defeated Diablo [I can't seem to say that enough --- lol]
900 loh, 0 life steal, 500 res all, 4.2k armor pre shout is all you need. dagger off hand, axe/mighty weapon main hand and u ltiterly cannot die. usually what i tell people is, dont worry about damage because if ur doing the build right, you will never die. If you ever run low on fury, have superistion as ur passive and run into the fire circles diablo throws. keep ur cyclones active and ww once u have enough going. save hp pots for ur clones and they may burst you down quickly until u get cyclones up on them. tbh, d shouldnt give u any problems at all... ever. dont use a shield. high dps main hand, any dps offhand with stats (usually loh).
WW is great for bosses. WW circles around the boss the tornado that comes out will all kill him. Diablo is slim so he doesent get gibbed like azmodan or belial. But he dies very quickly. And clones are a joke 4 player inferno clone solo eye closed lol.
As mentioned above damage on offhand is unimportant. You want the stats on it to be perfect. LoH over 800, crit damage, socket, str or vit if you can. I went from a 1 handed 900 dps weapon with 800 loh and 1 socket to 1 handed slayer with 590 dps, but 960 loh, 75% crit damage, 1 socket, 150 vit. My dps tab says i lost 4000 dps But my tornado went from critting for 19k to 24k. Testing on Larder i kill him about 1/4 faster then before. I feel alot of players of every class look at the DPS in their sheet as the end of all things when its far from that. Infact some classes like DH have very irrelevent high dps that doesent work well with their resource system. Check your stats, not your dps.
I dont understand, I have a lot less resistances, less health, I had less dmg than what you said the moment I killed Diablo.. yet I had no problem at all with Diablo. I use the Thrive in Chaos rune for Zerker and it NEVER dropped on Diablo, even through phase transitions. I turned on Zerker in Phase 1 and it didn't drop till Diablo died.. I just kept spinning circles around Diablo and my clone.. was actually pretty fun
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Then as I lay awake at 3AM, I even thought about using a shield ... that led me to think about just buying the cheapest gear I could that had ginormous LoH. I had a crappy 544 DPS dagger on AH with 600 LoH, I bought a shield with loads of vitality, and a magic ring and amulet. My LoH was at 2000, my life was at 50k, but my DPS was at 20K ... eek.
This time I got past Phase 2, but it took more than 1/2 an hour. I kept dying when Diablo was at about 20-25% health in Phase 3. I realized that the longer the fight took, the more chance I'd make a mistake ... and you guys know, Diablo is very unforgiving. That's when I betrayed my calling and went strictly melee ... I even [gulp] switched my skills. I used leap instead of sprint, rend instead of whirlwind. It took five attempts, but I finally got him!!! The last attempt, I thought I had failed ... I was pinned to the wall as he did his frontal lightning cast, and I kept slamming him ... you know how he doesn't die right away but sorta lingers for about 15 seconds before you get the achievement?
I guess I have to make some more attempts at him as a WW ... but not for while
I tried it, hated it, went back to S&B. Sure, those top WW'ers can fly through act III faster than I can, but I can still jump into a pack with 50+ mobs and stomp on all of them. Also... I feel like I'm playing a Barbarian. I can't stand the WW playstyle, at all, whatever the advantages may be.
I was much worse off gear wise than you were: 600 resists with impunity, less than 20k dps with battle cry, and only around 33k hp, though I did have about 1800 life on hit and 40% crit. I managed to kill him in a fairly short period of time...probably around 10 minutes? Phase 2 was the only iffy time for me, and it only took me 2 attempts total to kill him for my first time.
His hitbox is fairly large, so keeping him standing in 3 twisters isn't difficult at all. Once you have Wrath of the Berserker up, always make sure to leave at least 20 rage saved to keep up twisters, and spin to win baby. You're immune to bone prisons, might be able to tank the fire with high enough resist. You can't stand in the lightning cone, but you can easily dodge it with WotB speed and sprint.
If you need more life on hit, just stick with the high dps weapon you have, and then find a dagger with whatever-who-cares dps and +900 life on hit, and crit damage if you can manage it. Ideally you only need anywhere from 700 - 1500 life on hit to kill him.
I couldn't agree with you more ... I like the animation of WW, but I feel like a food processor with legs. I may start experimenting with a more traditional melee build ... now that I've defeated Diablo [I can't seem to say that enough --- lol]
As mentioned above damage on offhand is unimportant. You want the stats on it to be perfect. LoH over 800, crit damage, socket, str or vit if you can. I went from a 1 handed 900 dps weapon with 800 loh and 1 socket to 1 handed slayer with 590 dps, but 960 loh, 75% crit damage, 1 socket, 150 vit. My dps tab says i lost 4000 dps But my tornado went from critting for 19k to 24k. Testing on Larder i kill him about 1/4 faster then before. I feel alot of players of every class look at the DPS in their sheet as the end of all things when its far from that. Infact some classes like DH have very irrelevent high dps that doesent work well with their resource system. Check your stats, not your dps.